# Do I need to carry my insurance card with me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-carry-my-insurance-card-with-me/599335>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-carry-my-insurance-card-with-me/599335 "2011-10-11T18:48:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-carry-my-insurance-card-with-me/599335/21 "2011-10-14T07:22:26Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> If you’re saying this isn’t always the case you’d be correct. But it happens often. If you don’t have insurance or means to pay, you get treatment ‘by the book’, the minimal allowable care.

Fair enough. Though I work in a hospital in a semi-impoverished area (just outside Oakland, CA) and we go out of our way to treat everyone equally regardless of means.

(Unfortunately the powers-that-be are trying to shut down our “non-profit” hospital because we supposedly aren’t making a profit :rolleyes: )

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